What's the earliest time a store should play Xmas Music?

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When?

Before Halloween
0
No votes
Halloween
0
No votes
All Saint's Day
0
No votes
November 15th
1
2%
American Thanksgiving (Also known as the REAL ONE, OHH BURN, not really)
3
6%
Black Friday
11
21%
The Monday After Black Friday
2
4%
December 1
25
47%
Midway Through December
4
8%
Later
7
13%
 
Total votes: 53
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Re: What's the earliest time a store should play Xmas Music?

Postby Avistew » 27 Nov 2012, 13:25

I like how you added "American" not to qualify "Thanksgiving", but "November".
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Re: What's the earliest time a store should play Xmas Music?

Postby KiteNeravar » 27 Nov 2012, 14:54

Well I already qualified Thanksgiving, so I assumed the confusion was with November
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Re: What's the earliest time a store should play Xmas Music?

Postby AdmiralMemo » 27 Nov 2012, 16:31

Is it just me or is the poll starting to look LIKE a Christmas tree?
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Re: What's the earliest time a store should play Xmas Music?

Postby AlexanderDitto » 27 Nov 2012, 16:51

Avistew wrote:I like how you added "American" not to qualify "Thanksgiving", but "November".


...what's the difference between American November and Canadian November?

Now I feel like that's a setup to a terrible joke.
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Re: What's the earliest time a store should play Xmas Music?

Postby Metcarfre » 27 Nov 2012, 17:40

ABOUT FOUR WEEKS

*canned laughter*

(Also that's when football season ends for us)
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Re: What's the earliest time a store should play Xmas Music?

Postby AlexanderDitto » 27 Nov 2012, 17:53

Metcarfre wrote:ABOUT FOUR WEEKS

*canned laughter*

(Also that's when football season ends for us)


What does that have to do with Christmas music?!

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Re: What's the earliest time a store should play Xmas Music?

Postby MarkVI » 30 Nov 2012, 22:04

Being a jazz musician myself I'm always biased toward music with instrumental improvisation of some sort, but still Christmas songs get kind of tiring to me. It's hard to find renditions that aren't a bit tacky. Unfortunately, most stores play pretty cheesy stuff.

A couple of my favorite renditions are:
Miles Davis - We Three Kings: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JfpdGJk5nc
Dexter Gordon - Christmas Song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0C9MFZVNUoI

Sometimes though, I just like to listen to the chord progressions of christmas tunes since many of them aren't too old or have interesting reharmonizations.

For the music nerds, I was entertained by this meta-song, which covers music theory concepts as applied to 'The Christmas Song': http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dF074CL5vjI
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Re: What's the earliest time a store should play Xmas Music?

Postby empath » 01 Dec 2012, 03:15

Well, by consensus it's okay now. ;)

One year the store didn't have access to it's usual 'P.A. soundtrack' (which includes a 'xmas channel'), and instead we had a playlist of pretty good 'pop/rock' music from the past half-century...and then this source went into 'Christmas-mode'. It was an even mix between traditional, cliche xmas tunes, and regular music.

It was great...and then they got their original service (or whatever) back at about Dec. 15th or so. :?
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